CVE-2012-2655

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

PostgreSQL 8.3.x before 8.3.19, 8.4.x before 8.4.12, 9.0.x before 9.0.8, and 9.1.x before 9.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) by adding the (1) SECURITY DEFINER or (2) SET attributes to a procedural language's call handler.

Affected products

PostgreSQL: 8.3, 8.3.1, 8.3.2, 8.3.3, 8.3.4, 8.3.5 (+37)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082258.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082292.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082294.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00102.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00024.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1037.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50718
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2491
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:092
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1398/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082258.html

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